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, RAILROAD RAIL SPLICE.

No. 368,017. Patented Aug. '9, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL E. SHEA, OF \VATEBTOWN, NEWV YORK.

RAILROAD-RAIL SPLICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 368,017, dated August 9, 1887,

Application filed May 5, 1887. Serial No. 237,191. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL E. SHEA, of WVatertown, in the county of Jefferson, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in RailroadRail Splices, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention pertains to the class of railroad rail splices usually designated fishplate couplings, having the fish plates clamped against opposite sides of the stems of the end portions of the rails and bearing on the base and head of the same.

The object of this invention is to strengthen the rail-splice and to guard more effectually against the battering of the ends of the rails by the wheels passing over the same; and to that end my invention consists in the improved construction and combination of parts, as hereinafter fully described, and specifically set forth in the claim.

In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 is aside elevation of my improvedrail-splice. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same; and Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse section on line 00 as, Fig. 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

R R represent the end portions of two rails connected together by my improved splice, which latter consists of a chair composed of a base, 1), upon which the rails R R rest. Said base is somewhat wider than the base of the rails, so as to project somewhat beyond the outer edge of the same, and from the projecting edge of the base rises a rib, r. The opposite edge of the base I) is provided with a lip, Z, which embraces the flange of the base of the rail at the inner side thereof, and from the said lip rises the fish-bar a, which abuts with its upper edge against the under side of the head of the rail in the usual manner. Said base b,with the rib r, lip l, and fish-bar a, are

all formed in one solid piece of metal. Against the outer side of the rails is placed a fish-bar, 0, formed with a foot, (1, which abuts against the rib r, and the top portion of said fish-bar is formed with ahead, h, which rests against the head of the rail and has its top flush with the top of the rail, as shown in- Fig. 3 of the drawings. The described splice is secured to the perforated end portions of the rails by means of bolts e e,passing through the fish-bars a and cand intervening stem of the rail in the usual manner, and when properly secured, as aforesaid, the end portions of the rails are securely coupled together and maintained in line and in one and the same plane. The tread of the wheel passing over the splice receives the additional bearing of the top of the fish-bar c, which is effectually sustained by its abutment against the rib r of the chair.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In combination with the perforated end portions of the rails, the chair composed of the base I), the longitudinal rib r on one edge of said base,the lip l on the opposite edge of the base, and the fish-bar arising from the lip,all formed in one piece, and the fish-bar a, formed with the foot d abutting against the rib r, and with the head h, having its top flush with the top of the rails, and bolts 0 c, clamping said fishbars against opposite sides of the rails, substantially as described and shown.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name and affixed my seal, in the presence of two attesting witnesses, at Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, this 20th day of April, 1887.

\Vitnesses:

H. P. DENISON, O. BENDIXON. 

